Bruce Springsteen

[fox69]

HENRY BOY

HENRY BOY


They broke your toys this morning, henryRode your board right into dustSurrounded you with strangers who you could not trustAnd then they had the gallTo write your name up on the girls? room wallAnd send you out to mariaWho spoke of babies and allAnd wanted to shoot your joyIt?s a hard world when you?re the new kid in townAin?t it, henry boyWell the north side is for diamond-studded womanSubtly selling their waresAnd the west side is for debutantesAnd would be millionairesOh the east side is for lost boysWho know their moves too wellThe south side is for gamblers, henry boyThe train stops once for hellIt?s a hard world when they?re forcing youTo live your life out on broadwayBut henry I?m sure you?re gonna like it wellThe constellation she points to gate elevenThat?s where you got your connectionsLet me take a look inside my magic bookI don?t think you?re beyond my inventionsOh these doctor?s appendages I?m giving you for wingsI?m sure it?ll meet the occasionI?m gonna mix you some magic, you?ll spittin? sparksAnd ready for the invasionOh and the milky way?s a trip for dippersThey saw ya coming a mile awayIn the amusement park you?ll get clipped by rippersHiding behind candy ?cadesIn the alleyway you?ll get ripped by strippersAll who know your nameIn the stalls sit the soldier-boy kisserson leave for just a dayAnd henry couldn?t take itHe?s gonna be a submarinerRiding underground for the popeGonna stand on the corner of broadwayAnd scream: up ?scope

 

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HIGH HOPES

HIGH HOPES


Monday morning runs to sunday nightScreaming slow me down before the new year diesIt won?t take much to kill a lovin? smileAnd every mother with a baby cryin in her arms singinGive me help, give me strengthGive a soul a night of fearless sleepGive me love, give me peaceDon?t you know these days you pay for everythingGot high hopesComin from the cities, comin from the wildI see a breathless army breakin like a cloudIt?s gonna smother love it?s gonna shoot your hopesBefore the meek inherit they?ll learn to hate themselvesSinginGive me help, give me strengthGive a soul a night of fearless sleepGive me love, give me peaceDon?t you know these days you pay for everythingGot high hopesSo tell me someone what?s the priceI wanna buy some time and maybe live my lifeI wanna have a wife I wanna have some kidsI want to look in their eyes and know they?re gonna stand a chanceSinginGive me help, give me strengthGive a soul a night of fearless sleepGive me love, give me peaceDon?t you know these days you pay for everythingGot high hopes

 

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HIGHWAY 29

HIGHWAY 29


I slipped on her shoe, she was a perfect size 7
I said "There's no smokin' in the store ma'am"
She crossed her legs and then
We made some small talk that's where it should have stopped
She slipped me her number, I put it in my pocket
My hand slipped up her skirt, everything slipped my mind
In that little roadhouse
On highway 29
It was a small town bank it was a mess
Well I had a gun you know the rest
Money on the floorboards, shirt was covered in blood
And she was cryin', her and me we headed south
On highway 29

In a little desert motel the air was hot and clean
I slept the sleep of the dead, I didn't dream
I woke in the morning, washed my face in the sink
We headed into the Sierra Madres 'cross the border line
The winter sun shot thru the black trees
I told myself it was all something in her
But as we drove I knew it was something in me
Something that had been comin' for a long time
And something that was here with me now
On highway 29

The road was filled with broken glass and gasoline
She wasn't sayin' nothin', it was just a dream
The wind was coming silent thru the windshield
All I could see was snow, sky and pines
I closed my eyes and was runnin'
I was runnin' then I was flyin'

 

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HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED

HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED


Oh God said to abraham, kill me a sonAbe says, man, you must be putting me onGod say, no. abe say, what? God say, you can do what you want abe, butThe next time you see me comin? you better runWell abe says, where do you want this killing done? God says, out on highway 61.Well georgia sam he had a bloody noseWelfare department they wouldn?t give him no clothesHe asked poor howard where can I goHoward said there?s only one place I knowSam said tell me quick man I got to runOl? howard just pointed with his gunAnd said that way down on highway 61.Well mack the finger said to louie the kingI got forty red white and blue shoe stringsAnd a thousand telephones that don?t ringDo you know where I can get rid of these thingsAnd louie the king said let me think for a minute sonAnd he said yes I think it can be easily doneJust take everything down to highway 61.Now the fifth daughter on the twelfth nightTold the first father that things weren?t rightMy complexion she said is much too whiteHe said come here and step into the light he says hmm you?re rightLet me tell the second mother this has been doneBut the second mother was with the seventh sonAnd they were both out on highway 61.Now the rovin? gambler he was very boredHe was tryin? to create a next world warHe found a promoter who nearly fell off the floorHe said I never engaged in this kind of thing beforeBut yes I think it can be very easily doneWe?ll just put some bleachers out in the sunAnd have it on highway 61.

 

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HIGHWAY PATROLMAN

HIGHWAY PATROLMAN


My name is Joe Roberts I work for the state
I'm a sergeant out of Perrineville barracks number 8
I always done an honest job as honest as I could
I got a brother named Franky and Franky ain't no good

Now ever since we was young kids it's been the same come down
I get a call over the radio Franky's in trouble downtown
Well if it was any other man, I'd put him straight away
But when it's your brother sometimes you look the other way

Me and Franky laughin' and drinkin' nothin' feels better than blood on blood
Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"
I catch him when he's strayin' like any brother would
Man turns his back on his family well he just ain't no good

Well Franky went in the army back in 1965 I got a farm deferment settled down took Maria for my wife
But them wheat prices kept on droppin' till it was like we were gettin' robbed
Franky came home in '68 and me I took this job
Yea we're laughin' and drinkin' nothin' feels better than blood on blood
Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"
I catch him when he's strayin', teach him how to walk that line
Man turns his back on his family he ain't no friend of mine

The night was like any other, I got a call 'bout quarter to nine
There was trouble in a roadhouse out on the Michigan line
There was a kid lyin' on the floor lookin' bad, bleedin' hard from his head there was a girl cryin' at a table, it was Frank they said
Well I went out and I jumped in my car and I hit the lights
I must of done 110 through Michigan county that night

It was out at the crossroads down round Willow bank
Seen a Buick with Ohio plates behind the wheel was Frank
Well I chased him through them county roads till a sign said Canadian border 5 miles from here
I pulled over the side of the highway and watched his taillights disappear

Me and Franky laughin' and drinkin' nothin' feels better than blood on blood
Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"
I catch him when he's strayin' like any brother would
Man turns his back on his family well he just ain't no good

 

[fox69]

HOLD ON

HOLD ON


Verse 1:
I worked hard, baby, night and day
The things i had somebody took away
They took away everything i earned
But there's one lesson that'a i have learned

Chorus:
You got to hold on, little girl, to what you've got (4x)

Verse 2:
I been pushed and i been knocked down
But i picked myself right back up off the ground
And baby there's one thing that i have found
Fighting's the only way's to stand your ground

Chorus:
You got to hold on, little girl, to what you've got (4x)

Bridge:
I've been used, i've been abused
I've had, baby, my regrets
I've been lost, i paid the cost
But there's one thing i ain't gonna forget

Verse 3:
I've heard some hard lines, i've seen some cryin' times
Bad luck and trouble they been friends of mine
Got to stand straight and stare right at your face (fate?)
And play it hard before it's too late

Chorus:
You got to hold on, little girl, to what you've got (8x)

 

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HOLLYWOOD KIDS

HOLLYWOOD KIDS


They're the Hollywood kids each and every one
With a high class smile and a little baby's tongue
Lonely hard head losers dressed in the tinsel of the times
And learn all the latest lines and the order in which they come
So perfumed sweet and so obscene
Like the fancy dancers of our dirty green
Oh they knew hello and good bye but not what goes in between
Yea and its such a scene on Saturday night

Fifth avenue freaks strait off the racks
They swear you can buy and sell your soul on a good dat outside

They're the Hollywood kids each and everyone
And on Sunday back into their holes they run
And on Monday here I stand alone on this littered stage like an animal who
forgot he was in a cage
Just a restless soul
Just waiting for 'em to come
They're Hollywood kids each and everyone

 

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HOW CAN A POOR MAN STAND SUCH TIMES AND LIVE

HOW CAN A POOR MAN STAND SUCH TIMES AND LIVE


Well, the doctor comes 'round here
With his face all bright
And he says, "In a little while
You'll be alright"

All he gives is a humbug pill
A dose of dope and a great big bill
Tell me how can a poor man
Stand such times and live?

Me and my old school pals
Had some mighty high times down here
And what happened to you poor black folks
Well, it just ain't fair

He took a look around, gave a little pep talk
Said, "I'm with you", then he took a little walk
Tell me how can a poor man
Stand such times and live?

There's bodies floatin' on Canal
And the levees gone to Hell
Martha, get me my sixteen gauge
And some dry shells

Them who's got, got out of town
And them who ain't got left to drown
Tell me how can a poor man
Stand such times and live?

Go ahead

Got family scattered from Texas
All the way to Baltimore
Yeah, and I ain't got no home
In this world, no more

Gonna be a judgment that's a fact
A righteous train rollin' down this track
Tell me how can a poor man
Stand such times and live?

Tell me how can a poor man
Stand such times and live?
Tell me how can a poor man
Stand such times and live?

 

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HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING

HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING


My life flows on in endless song
Above earth's lamentation.
I hear the real, thought far off hymn
That hails the new creation
Above the tumult and the strife,
I hear the music ringing;
It sounds an echo in my soul
How can I keep from singing?

What through the tempest loudly roars,
I hear the truth, it liveth.
What through the darkness round me close,
Songs in the night it giveth.
No storm can shake my inmost calm
While to that rock I'm clinging.
Since love is lord of Heaven and earth
How can I keep from singing?

When tyrants tremble, sick with fear,
And hear their death-knell ringing,
When friends rejoice both far and near,
How can I keep from singing?
In prison cell and dungeon vile
Our thoughts to them are winging.
When friends by shame are undefiled,

 

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HUMAN TOUCH

HUMAN TOUCH


You and me we were the pretenders
We let it all slip away
In the end what you don't surrender
Well the world just strips away

Girl ain't no kindness in the face of stragers
Ain't gonna find no miracles here
Well you can wait on your blesses my darlin'
But I got a deal for you right here

I ain't lookin' for prayers of pity
I ain't comin' round searchin for a crutch
I just want someone to talk to
And a little of that Human Touch
Just a little of that Human Touch

Ain't no mercy on the streets of this town
Ain't no bread from heavenly skies
Ain't nobody drawin' wine from this blood
It's just you and me tonight

Tell me in a world without pity
Do you think what I'm askin's too much?
I just want something to hold on to
And a little of that Human Touch
just a little of that Human Touch

Oh girl that feeling of safety you prize
Well it comes whit a hard hard price
You can't shut off the risk and the pain
Without losin' the love that remains
We're all riders on this train

So you been broken and you been hurt
Well show me somebody who ain't
Yeah I know I ain't nobody's bargain
But hell a little touchup
And a little paint...

You might need somethin' to hold on to
When all the answers they don't amount to much
Somebody that you can just talk to
And a little of that Human Touch

Baby in a world without pity
Do you think what I'm askin's too much?
I just want to feel you in my arms
And share a little of that Human Touch
Share a little of that Human Touch
Feel a little of that Human Touch
Feel a little of that Human Touch
Share a little of that Human Touch
Feel a little of that Human Touch
Give you a little of that Human Touch
Give me a little of that Human Touch